A aplicação da Ratio Studiorum (1599) nos colégios Antônio Vieira em Salvador/BA e Santo Inácio de Fortaleza/CE: uma pedagogia atual e de longa duração

Abstract

It is an investigation in the context of educational history. It aims to understand the pedagogical action of the Jesuits in Brazil, focusing on the systematics of Ignatian root pedagogy, named Ratio Studiorum, an instrument that serves as a guide to teachers of Jesuit colleges, regulating from the way of organizing lessons, to the regime disciplinary and didactic of the classes. It adopts the comparative perspective, since this theme operates with simultaneous events that, even taking place in distinct spaces, are the result of an action of an international missionary nature, which extends in time for centuries. It addresses a secular pedagogy, with a humanist and modern basis, the research sought to understand: 1) the theological and philosophical foundations of Ratio Studiorum; 2) the contribution he gave to Brazilian education through his historiography; 3) their presence in the current teaching model and, in particular, their effective performance in the Santo Inácio Colleges in Fortaleza and Antônio Vieira in Salvador. The research was based mainly on a bibliographic source that affects this theme, based on, for example, authors such as: Azevedo (1958), Cavalcante (2008), Franca (1952) and Schmitz (1994); also uses visits to the Jesuit colleges indicated for on-site observation, analyzes documents that guide this pedagogy and uses interviews with teachers and managers of such colleges on their practice. It achieved satisfactory results, especially when we note that the pillars of the Ratio Studiorum of 1599 remain alive, in this way they clarify the reason for the permanence of Jesuit pedagogy in time and its relevance, based on the capacity to adapt to the new, without neglecting its roots as an institution of Christian education.